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Photoshop 6 Killer Tips
By Scott Kelby, Felix Nelson
Published 2001
If you use Photoshop in your business, you know that Photoshop has many ways to accomplish the same effect. If you wants to get the most out of the program, learning the many shortcuts is essential. You may know the author, Scott Kelby, as the publisher of Mac Today and Photoshop User, and organizer of Photoshop World conferences. Felix Nelson is Creative Director of Photoshop User and an accomplished trainer. Killer Tips has hundreds of tips from keyboard shortcuts to neat techniques that will blow you away. ìWhy didnít I know about this beforeî was my reaction to his quick description of how to remove red eye from photographs. This is not a book for people seeking special effects. It is simply the best collection of tips to help you get the most accomplished in the least time. Worth every penny.
Some examples of the tips include:
Using the Lasso tool - keep it straight
Nudging your way around
Tired of pressing the Shift Key to rotate through tools?
Instant Selection from any path
Smack it, Flip it, Free Transform it
and hundreds more!
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Adobe Photoshop 7 Web Design with goLive 6
By Michael Baumgradt
Published 2002
Aspiring web designers moving from print to the web are often surprised to find that the goals for image creation are quite different. Rather than being judged by the quality of an image as it prints at high resolution, the goal with the web is to make the file as small as possible for fast loading, while maintaining as much detail as possible. Photoshop is the web designer's best friend, offering tremendous capabilities. So a book explicitly about using Photoshop for web design seems an ideal subject. But I feel this book falls short. The author has fallen into the trap of attempting to speak to entry level audiences and fills the first 75 pages with basic web terminology and lots of examples of websites. There is certainly a large section on web design techniques using Photoshop and Imageready, but such important things as creating rollover buttons, surely one of Photoshop's great uses for a web designer, get just two pages. The same with Imagemaps, just two pages. GIF and JPG optimization get more detailed coverage, as well they should. There is a small section on using GoLive 6, just 20 pages! You would be better off buying a book on GoLive for detailed guidance. And finally, it has a short section on video, which has nothing at al to do with Photoshop! The book is well illustrated in full color, and with menu selections bolded for ease of reading. Some illustrations show use of Photoshop 7 and Mac OS X, so it is up to date. But IMHO, by attempting to touch on too many subjects, the book falls well short of the in-depth guide to web publishing with Photoshop that I was looking for. [ Doug Noble, TheMacbookstore.com Reviewer]
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Easy Photoshop 6
By Kate Binder
Published 2000
Easy Photoshop X uses a simple and friendly approach to teach you the basics of Photoshop X. This book is based completely on visual learning. You don't have to read text in order to complete a given task. In addition, the book is focused on the topics and tools that are most frequently used for the most common Photoshop tasks and avoids the complex tasks of higher-level users. Some of the tasks covered include interface basics, selection tools, color, editing and manipulation, filters, printing and using Photoshop for the Web.
Perfect for the beginning user who feels overwhelmed by this very complex package
Focuses on the tasks that are most frequently used
Includes added coverage of ImageReady, the companion application for Web images that makes rollovers, image maps, and animations as simple as the click of a button
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Photoshop 6 for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide
By Elaine Weinmann, Peter Lourekas
Published 252001
A beginner to intermediate level visual guide to learning Photoshop 6 for Windows and Macintosh. Works like a reference book, with guide tabs on each page, making the text easy to flip through. Takes a visual approach, using screen shots to show how to do tasks, and avoiding long-winded explanations. Softcover.
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PhotoshopÆ 6 In Depth: New Techniques Every Designer Should Know for Today's Print, Multimedia, and Web
By David Xenakis, Benjamin Levisay
Published 212001
Takes the mystery out of the new Photoshop functions! Readers will learn layering, channel selection, color corrections, prepress, integration with other applications, and how to prepare images for the Web. The linear format in each chapter addresses individual topics, allowing readers to select according to their needs and skill levels. This book includes two CD-ROMs, which contain a collection of third-party software such as filters, plug-ins, and also stock photos and all files needed to complete the book's tutorials.
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Sams Teach Yourself Adobe Photoshop 6 in 24 Hours
By Carla Rose
Published 232001
Sams Teach Yourself Adobe Photoshop 6 in 24 Hours uses a friendly, conversational approach to teach you the basics of Photoshop 6. Photoshop can be a somewhat intimidating program for the beginning user, but Sams Teach Yourself Adobe Photoshop 6 in 24 Hours, with its careful, step-by-step approach, makes it easy even for the beginning user to learn the basic techniques involved in using Photoshop to create and manipulate images. The book covers only those features of Photoshop that a beginning user would need, and it is organized in a logical order that reflects the natural progression a new user is likely to follow in developing a familiarity with the product.
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Adobe Photoshop 6.0 Classroom in a Book (With CD-ROM)
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Published 152000
Each installment in the Classroom in a Book series features consistently well written and conceived lessons used in Adobe's official training and certification program. These books guarantee solid instruction, taking readers step by step through professional-level projects. Another fine tutorial-style book from the Adobe staff, this volume covers the latest version of Photoshop.
Since the book assumes no prior knowledge, it will benefit beginners the most. Topics covered include the work environment, tools and palettes, working with selections, layers, masks, channels, retouching, effects, color management, and creating images for print or the Web.
If you are already comfortable with version 5.5, Photoshop 6.0's many new features make this edition worthwhile. New topics include the context-sensitive options bar, layer sets and layer styles, weighted optimization (which allows you to specify varying qualities of JPEG compression in a slice or image), image and text warping, and the new support for vector-based art. It would have been a nice touch if new features had been flagged in the text; however, readers can consult the Adobe Web site to see what's new and then find appropriate lessons in the book using the thorough index.
All lesson project files and fonts are on the companion CD-ROM. Each lesson begins by outlining what will be learned and how long the project should take, and ends with review questions and answers. The color section shows finished artwork for each project and some useful reference pages: a toolbox overview (with color illustrations of what each tool does), pages with layer and blending mode samples, a set of images helpful in deciding color management settings, and two pages of variations in optimized GIFs).
You'll also learn how to create slices both in Photoshop and ImageReady and rollovers and animations in ImageReady. And there's a lesson that covers the commonly used practice of designing Web pages using Photoshop, Acrobat (to share comments with clients and coworkers), and GoLive.
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